The box arrived on a Thursday, wrapped in oilcloth and tied with...

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The box arrived on a Thursday, wrapped in oilcloth and tied with twine, delivered by an old sailor who smelled of Lake Michigan and cheap tobacco and said only: "He gave it to me. Said you'd know w...

Tommy O'Brien untied the twine and opened the oilcloth. Inside was a cylinder of thin metal foil, no thicker than newspaper, covered in symbols that made his eyes water if he stared too long. They weren't Chinese or Arabic or anything he'd seen in the war—nothing human, he was sure of that. But they weren't alien either. They looked like someone had tried to write mathematics in a language that...

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